While nearly all the world’s airlines are parking planes and permanently retiring parts of their fleets, British Airways has begun adding the new 787-10, largest variant of the popular line, to its fleet. The first arrived in London this morning.
It may seem to go against logic to be adding the planes, but BA is looking ahead to using them soon, and points out that it has already paid all the pre-delivery costs for them, so instead of taking on a new expense, it actually means they can begin to earn it back.
BA has twelve of the 787-10s on order, along with a number of large A350 variants. At around 330 seats and two engines instead of four, they are BA’s planned replacement for the 747s that will be phased out. BA has configured it as a four-class plane, with First, Club Suite, World Traveler Plus and World Traveler. That’s first, business, premium economy and cattle class to those of us who aren’t fluent in promospeak.
